Killing the Lich

12/3/2017

Attendance: Durendal, Azarra, Whitecat, Shorty

We learn that the necromancer was actually a Lich with necromancy skills. We go back to the city and then see a meteor go across the sky and land to the far East. We go with Petros to check out the meteor. It takes us two days to reach the place. We see a campfire near where the meteor landed. Whitecat sneaks ahead and sees 11 goblins. We attack the goblins. After killing most of the goblins, the rest run away.

Durendal sends his bat out, and the bat sees a figure in the center of the campfire like ring, surrounded by a circle of flames. As we contemplate leaving, the flaming circle appear to open up and we see an Efreeti. Azarra charges and does a power attack on Efreeti. Shorty casts mirage and creates 5 images of Azarra. Azarra attacks again and fumbles, hurting herself severely, knocking herself unconscious.

Durendal heals Azarra for 9 hit points. Shorty casts mirror image on Durendal. The Efreeti attacks Durendal, but misses because of the mirror images. Azarra attacks again and finally does a fatal blow. Just before dying, the Efreeti begs for mercy and says he will grant us three wishes. Azarra kills the Efreeti anyway.

The Efreeti vanishes and in his place, there is a bottle. There is also a necklace nearby. Petros begins to attack Durendal, but he misses because of the mirror images. Shorty casts a fireball spell attacking Petros. Azarra attacks Petros and cuts him in half.

Petros had a staff and a spell book with a lock. The necklace does -10 damage reduction, plus something else which we could not figure out. The staff is a +1 attack and +1 damage. The spell book is still unidentified.

Killing the Necromancer

10/30/2016

Attendance: Durendal, Azarra, Whitecat, Shorty

Whitecat is unconscious and his wolf attacks doing no damage. Azarra attacks and kills the werebear. Azarra continues to attack and slices through the hand with the sword of undoing. The hand vanishes!

As we continue to attack, the necromancer retreats behind numerous skeletons. Meanwhile, Durendal continues to use magic to keep the troll cowering in fear. The necromancer tries to take the troll back and is fighting Durendal over control of the troll. Durendal is attacked by skeletons and goes unconscious, thus losing control over the troll.

Whitecat is killed by three skeletons. We finally get through the skeletons and Azarra hits the necromancer and nearly slices him in half, killing him instantly. The skeletons collapse immediately. We carry Whitecat to the surface. Shorty finds a ring of climbing. The werebear has a large belt on him. Shorty picks up a bag he finds in the corner. We also find a fancy bow on the werewolfs. Shorty tries to keep an enchanted skeleton and troll, but Azarra kills them both.

We leave the underground and the city inhabitants heal us and take Whitecat’s body away to resurrect him. The mayor is very happy that we have killed the necromancer and gives us 15,000 gold. Durendal and Shorty begin to identify items. Shorty searches the bag and finds a ring of animal friendship and a cursed long sword and 325 gold. The long bow is a +2 to damage and +2 to hit, with an auto hit once per turn and keen (double the critical strike range). The large belt gives +4 strength.

Attacking the Necromancer

10/23/2016

Attendance: Durendal, Azarra, Whitecat

We continue in the underground and an archer attacks us, doing a great deal of damage to Azarra. The archer turns into a werewolf and trips Azarra. Azarra attacks the werewolf and kills him. We begin to attack the skeletons and zombies, but due to their sheer numbers, we decide we need another plan. We continue down the tunnels in search of the necromancer. After more attacks, we decide to retreat to heal up before continuing to attack the necromancer.

After leaving the underground, we heal up and renew our spells. Then we re-enter the underground to attack the necromancer. We encounter a werebear and an undead troll. As we are attacking the werebear and troll, archers emerge and begin to attack Whitecat.

The Underworld

10/9/2016

Attendance: Roland/Durendal, Azarra, Shorty

Roland dies and the following day we find a Grey Elf named Durendal. Durendal is able to heal and he heals Azarra. We go back to the keep and find out that the city is under attack by skeletons. We go to the city to help and see that they are overrun with skeletons and zombies. We find a sewer entrance and try to find the source. We come across a zombie and he begins to attack Azarra. We quickly kill the zombie and continue down the tunnels, finding and killing more zombies.

We eventually come across a group of zombies with a wraith behind them. Shorty casts command undead and surprisingly takes control of the wraith. After Durendal speaks of attacking the wraith, the wraith attacks Azarra. Azarra attacks with the sword of undoing, and the sword absorbs the wraith. The sword absorbs all spells cast from or to the user.

Captured by the Centaurs

9/18/2016

Attendance: Roland, Azarra, Whitecat

Here is a map of where we are located:

We wake up in the tent and a centaur is taking us to his leader. Plizran, the leader, asks us why we are supporting the evil city. He tells us there is a necromancer in the city that is rising undead and killing its citizens. We decide to go to the city to buy items and look for the necromancer. Along the way, Whitecat finds a wolf dens and befriends a pup, keeping him as a familiar.

In the city, the mage tells us if we bring him back a live troll, he will give Whitecat a high value plate mail. We leave the city to go fight some trolls. We find a troll encampment in the evening and approach it. We attack the troll and the troll quickly kills Whitecat’s wolf. We finally kill the Troll (we have to burn him to keep him dead). During the battle, Roland is seriously injured and unconscious.

We find a green salty-smelling potion, a large great sword and 200 gold pieces. Roland hypothesizes that the wizard was trying to kill us off by sending us to capture a troll. We believe the wizard is the evil necromancer. We try to get back to the watch tower, but it is too late and we make up a camp for the night. Since only two of us are conscious, we decide to not keep watch. Fortunately, we are fine in the morning and continue on our way.

Battle with the Centaurs

9/11/2016

Attendance: Roland, Azarra, Whitecat, Shorty, Destro

We continue back towards the keep and encounter 4 centaurs, 3 of whom are pointing long bows at us. We attack them and hear two more centaurs coming to join the battle. We continued fighting a grueling battle for some time and finally overcome all the centaurs. Then, a heavily armed centaur comes running towards us and yells out, “Stop! There’s been a grave misunderstanding.”

Roland continued to charge the new centaur and another 20-30 centaurs come running out of the forest. They quickly overcome Roland and capture our entire group. The centaurs heal us and we wake up in their encampment, healed and feeling well.

Trying to protect Yniom Keep

7/24/2016

Attendance: Roland, Azarra, Shorty, Destro

We hear about centaurs capturing innocent people and making them slaves, as well as freeing horses. We begin traveling towards Yniom Keep and a group of people with 30 horses are going in the opposite direction. The people say 20 – 30 centaurs are taking their horses at night.

We continue down the road and see something in the road. It turns out to be a heavily armored orc. He does not engage in conversation with us. Many more orcs come out of the forest around us and we are caught in an ambush. There are 8 orcs in total. We eventually kill all the orcs, but sustain substantial damage. We find a masterwork dwarven great axe, an intelligence potion and 175 gold.

We continue to the Keep and decide to sleep and heal for a day. At the Keep we find that almost all the horses are gone and we decide to camp out to find the centaurs who are raiding it at night.